Tobias Lutke Quotes

Before me, there was no money, no business with yoga.

I'm proud we have built a billion-dollar business from scratch here in the US. It has been done very much in a slow, building way. It wasn't an instant type of thing. America is a huge market where persistence is very important, and I am a builder by nature.

Somehow over the years people have gotten the impression that Wal-Mart was...just this great idea that turned into an overnight success. But...it was an outgrowth of everything we'd been doing since [1945]...And like most overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making.

When a business becomes successful seemingly overnight, no one knows about all the months and years you've invested, all the projects you've tried before that didn't work.

Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending.

You can't go into business thinking that success will come to you in just one or two years.

In the first three years of Mint, from when it was founded to when it was sold, I can honestly say that in a sustainable way, I couldn't have worked any harder on it.

You will never build a company on the scale of a Facebook or a Google if you sell it along the way.

Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.

We built that into a wholesale business that became, really, one of the largest companies in the United States. We had success in building new markets, opening markets for competition, and that takes a personal toll.

The American economy has been built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work gave birth to flourishing businesses.

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

When I set up UTV, my ambitions were quite low.

It's been a long haul. It may seem to some people that have never heard of me, 'Oh she just popped up on the scene,' but I've been working on this for some time.

Good startups usually take 10 years.

Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.

There are no quick wins in business - it takes years to become an overnight success.

I really want people to know that I've worked hard, very hard, to get to where I am today.. this didn't just happen overnight. I started in business over 25 years ago and have found a way to build on what I've learned through every partnership and opportunity.

In real business, there's spiritual success and then there's facts and just hard work and making sure you're on point with the product.

In the private sector, as the president of a small business, my focus has been on driving the growth of our business, not driving any partisan political agenda.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin'.

I'm the classic old-school entrepreneur that says let's build companies of lasting value.

Many brands have lost their way in the process of evolving from a small company to a much bigger corporation.

You might not be the greatest rapper or singer, but the businessman always outlasts the talent.

The minute I went into business, I was a success, and I've done well ever since.